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Landsat 9 Reaches Five-Year Design Life Milestone
Original: Mission Success! Celebrating Landsat 9’s Five-Year Design Life Milestone
NASA is celebrating Landsat 9 completing its five-year design life milestone. The Earth-observation satellite, launched to continue the decades-long Landsat programme, has now met its planned operational lifespan while continuing to deliver imagery used to track forests, water, crops and land change worldwide. NASA frames the milestone as a mission success and a sign the spacecraft could keep operating well beyond its designed lifetime.
Why now: NASA marked the satellite's five-year design life milestone, prompting coverage of its ongoing Earth-monitoring work.
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- Mission Success! Celebrating Landsat 9’s Five-Year Design Life Milestone · science.nasa.gov
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